You can really learn the ancient Coptic language on your own using just this book. A very clear and pedagogically written book. This is a great textbook for learning Coptic, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it. However, a key to exercises for this textbook can be found online. There is no answer key in this book, but there isn’t in “Coptic in 20 Lessons” either. In “Coptic in 20 Lessons” the readings are all taken from the same source. The readings after the lessons are great, and varied. It also starts getting you into short readings in the later lessons. The lessons 30 in all take you from easy to progressively introducgion grammatical concepts. Though I’m sure it’s assumed you do know some Greek.Īt any rate, this is a great textbook for learning Coptic. However you don’t have to really know any Greek, as all of the Greek loanwords are noted and translated. Grammatically, Coptic is nothing like Greek, but knowing a bit of Greek vocabulary can go a long way. Speaking of Greek, an knowledge of Lajbdin can help, as there are a great number of loanwords in Coptic. There are more then there used to be, but it’s still a very small in comparison to, say, Latin or Greek.

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